Presented by the Albert Schweitzer
Institute for the Humanities
In Collaboration with the Soros Foundation- Latvia
Riga, Latvia: May 5-8, 1999
| 9AM | Welcome
Vilnis Sosars, MD, Head, Soros Foundation
Latvia Medical Board;
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| 9:15 | The Legacy of Albert Schweitzer
Julius Landwirth, MD, JD, Director, Health Care Development Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities, USA |
| 9:30 | Major Issues in Health Care Ethics: An
Overview
Latvia: Vija Sile, PhD, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Humanities, Medical Academy of Latvia Lithuania: Eugenijus Gefenas, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Medical Faculty, Vilnius University Institute of Philosophy and Sociology; Chair, Lithuanian National Committee on Biomedical Ethics Estonia: Tiina Juhansoo, MD, PhD, Main Specialist in Internships and Residency, Medical Department, Tartu University; Member, Bioethics Research Committee, Tartu University; Member, Bioethics Council of Estonia USA: John Balint, MD, Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Medical Ethics, Albany Medical Center |
| 11:30 | Discussion |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 | A Hungarian Quasi-bioethicist and Secular
Humanist in Omaha, Nebraska
Bela Blasszauer, JD, PhD, President, Central European Association of Bioethics, Hungary |
| 1:30 | Health Care Resource Allocation: Ethical
Considerations
Martin A. Strosberg, PhD, Professor and Director, Graduate Health Care Management Program, Union College, USA |
| 2:15 | Ethical Issues in the Allocation of Scarce
Resources in Lithuania
Eugenijus Gefenas, MD, PhD |
| 2:45 | Discussion |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:15-4:30 | Workshops: Ethical Issues in Resource
Allocation
Facilitators: Eugenijus Gefenas, MD, PhD, Martin Strosberg, PhD, and John Balint, MD |
| 4:30 | Workshop Reports |
| 9AM | The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Changing
Times
Jane Greenlaw, JD, Director, Division of Medical Humanities; Co-Director, Program in Clinical Ethics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, USA |
| 9:45 | Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Caucasus
Nations
Givi Javashvili, MD, PhD, Chair, Georgian Health Law and Bioethics Society; Advisor, Health Legislation Department, National Health Management Center; Medical Director, Curatio Medical Group, Republic of Georgia |
| 10:30 | Doctor-Patient Relationship in Lithuania
Vytautas Cepulis, MD, Lithuanian Medical Ethic Committee |
| 11:00 | Discussion |
| 11:15 | Break |
| 11:30 | Framing Ethical Issues in End of Life
Care
John Balint, MD |
| 12:15 | Discussion |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Ethical issues for Terminally Ill Patients
in Latvia
Vilnis Sosars, MD |
| 2:15 | End of Life Issues in Lithuania
Irayda Jakusevate, PhD, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Kaunas Medical University, Lithuania |
| 2:45 | Discussion |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:15-4:30 | Workshops: Decisions at the End
of Life
Vilnis Sosars, MD and Jane Greenlaw, JD |
| 4:30 | Workshop Reports |
| 9AM | Ethics in Research on Human Subjects:
Official Codes of Ethics and Realities in the Caucasus
Givi Javashvili, MD, PhD |
| 9:45 | US Ethical Guidelines in Research on Children
Julius Landwirth, MD, JD |
| 10:15 | Discussion |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | Ethics Committees: History, Function,
Controversies in the United States
John Balint, MD |
| 11:30 | Panel Discussion: Ethics Committees
in the CEE/NIS Region
Estonia: Lembit Allikmets, MD, PhD, Professor and Head, Institute of Pharmacology, Tartu University; Chief, Bioethics Research Committee, Tartu University Latvia: Laima Rudze, MD, Deputy Director, Health Affairs Department, Ministry of Welfare; Director, Central Medical Ethics Committee Lithuania: Eugenijus Gefenas, MD, PhD |
| 12:15 | Discussion |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Panel Discussion Continued: Ethics
Committees in the CEE/NIS Region
Hungary: Bela Blasszauer, JD, PhD Georgia: Givi Javashvili, MD, PhD |
| 2:00 | Discussion |
| 2:15 | Break |
| 2:30 | Procedures for Case Reviews by Hospital
Ethics Committees
Julius Landwirth, MD, JD |
| 3:00-4:15 | Workshop: Case Studies for Hospital
Ethics Committees
Facilitator: John Balint, MD |
| 4:15 | Workshop Reports |
| 9AM | Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Jane Greenlaw, JD |
| 9:45 | Ethical Issues in the Care of Children
with Disabilities
Tiina Talvik, MD, PhD, Professor and Head, Department of Pediatrics, Tartu University, Estonia |
| 10:15 | Discussion |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | The Role of NGOs in the Changing Ethical
Climate in Estonia: The Experience of the Estonian Multiple Sclerosis Society
Katrin Gross-Paju, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Tartu University, Estonia |
| 11:15 | Medical Ethics and Physician Training John Balint, MD |
| 12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 1:15 | Panel Discussion: Informed Consent
in Countries in Transition
Lithuania: Eugenijus Gefenas, MD, PhD Estonia: Tiina Juhansoo, MD, PhD Latvia: Solita Udrase, MD, Director, Mental Health Center of Latvia Georgia: Givi Javashvili, MD, PhD Hungary: Bela Blasszauer, JD, PhD
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| 2:30 | Discussion |
| 3:00 | Panel Discussion: The Ethics of
“Tipping”
Estonia: Valdar Parve, PhD, Department of Philosophy, Tartu University; Member of the Committee of Human Research
Latvia: Janis Velde, MD, Member, Central Medical Ethics Committee |
| 3:45 | Discusson |
| 4:15 | Closing Ceremony |